'This is a path that it's very hard to turn back on,' Fiona Hill warned.
She pointed to parallels between Trump's movement and right-wing populist leaders around the world.
"This is a path that it's very hard to turn back on. Once people start to forget that they're supposed to be in the service of the country, once they forget their loyalty to the country... —once they put all of that first, then we're in really big trouble," the former Trump administration official said.
Fiona Hill, the Trump's National Security Council’s former senior director for Europe and Russia, testifies before the House Intelligence Committee in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill November 21, 2019 in Washington, D.C.Later in the interview, Hill explained that many Trump supporters see themselves in the former president. They believe he represents them while other lawmakers have not, she assessed.
"I think it's just very hard for Americans to step back and realize that they have themselves enthralled, people who have voted for him, to an individual," Hill said."They don't want to admit it to themselves and any criticism about Trump is a criticism about them. He's kind of like an avatar in a big video game, in a reality game. But in real life, you know, President Trump is taking us in the direction of tyranny. This is no joke.
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